Vintage Bourbon 1980 Single Vintage 70cl KBD / Willett

Vintage Bourbon 1980 Single Vintage KBD / Willett 70cl
DSP-KY-78, S/N: BR 01-05, dump record No: RG 00-73, withdrawn from storage: 10.26.00, dumped for bottling in tank No. 5, maroon wax capsule.
An incredibly rare example of an early KBD/Willett Vintage Bourbon labeled as “Single Vintage” 1980. Perhaps the most scarce of the KBD “Vintage Bourbon” bottlings. Bottled at about 20 years old and a stunning example of KBD history. 
This release being dumped in the late 2000s is likely one of the first releases of the Vintage Bourbon line. 
Allied Lomar president, Marci Palatella, was Julian Van Winkle III’s agent in the Japanese market for many years, and their early bottlings were contracted to him at his Old Commonwealth distillery. Allied Lomar opened their own Preservation distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky in 2018. The Van Winkle partnership with the Sazerac company in the early 2000’s ended this agreement however, with the production of bottles such as this moved to Willett distillery, where they were bottled by its owners, Evan Kulsveen’s Kentucky Bourbon Distillers.